Walton Company, which produces and sells a small digital clock, bases its pricing strategy on a 25 percent markup on total cost. Based on annual production costs for 15,000 units of product, computations for the sales price per clock follow. Unit-level costs $ 330,000 Fixed costs 78,000 Total cost (a) 408,000 Markup (a × 0.25) 102,000 Total sales (b) $ 510,000 Sales price per unit (b ÷ 15,000) $ 34 Required Walton has excess capacity and receives a special order for 4,000 clocks for $25 each. Calculate the contribution margin per unit. Based on this, should Walton accept the special order? Prepare a contribution margin income statement for the special order.

Consider a small island country whose only industry is weaving. the following table shows information about the small economy in two different years. complete the table by calculating physical capital per worker as well as labor productivity. hint: recall that productivity is defined as the amount of goods and services a worker can produce per hour. in this problem, measure productivity as the quantity of goods per hour of labor. year physical capital labor force physical capital per worker labor hours output labor productivity (looms) (workers) (looms) (hours) (garments) (garments per hour of labor) 2024 160 40 1,800 14,400 2025 180 60 3,900 23,400

Suppose a firm faces a fixed price of output, 푝푝= 1200. the firm hires workers from a union at a daily wage, 푤푤, to produce output according to the production function 푞푞= 2퐸퐸12. there are 225 workers in the union. any union worker who does not work for this firm is guaranteed to find nonunion employment at a wage of $96 per day. a. what is the firm’s labor demand function? b. if the firm is allowed to choose 푤푤, but then the union decides how many workers to provide (up to 225) at that wage, what wage will the firm set? how many workers will the union provide? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? c. now suppose that the union sets the wage, but the firm decides how many workers to hire at that wage (up to 225). what wage will the union set to maximize the total income of all 225 workers? how many workers will the firm hire? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? [hint: to maximize total income of union, take the first order condition with respect to w and set equal to 0.]

Blake edwards has done some research and has discovered that economists believe interest rates will rise significantly over the next two years. blake believes that this will lead to fewer homes being sold and fewer jobs in the banking and mortgage industries. this is an example of influencing jobs in the future.